Compiling Kernel on FC2

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>>Yeah, all that I do as root, otherwise I couldn't wirte to the 
>>linux-2.6.<insert_version_here> under /usr/src ;)
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>/usr/src doesn't have to be root-only: it's perfectly permissible to
>create a group (say "compile" or "wheel") and chmod /usr/src so that the
>group has write access. Then put a normal (trusted) user and root into
>the group.
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>Then you can untar, configure and compile under /usr/src as a normal
>user, and only have to become root to do the installation.
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>I'd call this better practice than doing everything as root, and it's
>more or less what I do.
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>James.
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Actually I had it that way, but for some reason at some point it would 
not allow me to write to the directory (even when set perms as 775), the 
group was kbuild, BTW. I'll try that again, since that happened in FC2.